The search box on the taskbar or Start not only allows you search your PC but also helps you get results from the web using Microsoft’s own Bing search. When you type something in the search box, search suggestions appear in the box and clicking on one of them or clicking Search the web option will open results in Edge web browser.

While the feature is definitely useful as we can quickly search the web and launch our favorite websites right from the search box, there is no option in Windows 10 to use Google to search the web instead of Bing. Because of this, there are many users who prefer disabling web search results in the search box.

If you love to search the web right from the taskbar or Start but would love to use Google instead of Bing as your web search engine, there is a workaround for that. Yes, it’s possible to make Windows 10’s taskbar or start search box show web results using the Google search.

Enable Google search in Windows 10 taskbar search

In this guide, we will show how you can get results from Google while using taskbar or Start search in Windows 10.

Step 1: The first step is to download and install Google Chrome browser on your Windows 10 PC. Since downloading and installing Chrome browser is fairly simple, we are not providing any additional information on that.

That’s all good, and very well written instructions…if you want google. I have about as much use for google as a hole in the head though. (Yes I know many prefer it, and that is okay. To each their own.) I have never had good results from google, whether search results, or products, or software. So how about some instructions to set Yahoo as the search provider. Any ideas? Thanks for all you do.

This is a good extension, but it should be noted that Chrome must already be open for it to work. If it’s not, then Cortana will still be able to go to Bing. You will have to hit the refresh button to then get the redirect to Google to work.